Bot. [mod.L., f. Du. Babianer, given to the plants because their subterranean stems are eaten by baboons.] A South African genus of bulbo-tuberous Iridaceæ, with handsome yellow, purple or scarlet flowers.
1835. Penny Cycl., III. 226/1.
1882. Garden, 27 May, 358/3. Those strange Babianas which one so seldom sees in their beauty in our English gardens.
